Free data sounds like a good thing, but a new article from net neutrality icon Susan Crawford says a new breed of partially free data plans could spell doom for the open web. Crawford's target is zero-rating, a system that lets content companies buy out specific portions of a given user's data plan, offering effectively free data as long as you're using the right apps. Under this system, Google might pay AT&T to make YouTube exempt from any data caps, giving AT&T customers the chance to go wild with video consumption, but also shutting smaller competitors like Vimeo out of the picture ...
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